VANDERMAELEN, Phillippe MariePartie de l'Arabie. Asie. No. 77 Brussels: Vandermaelen, Phillipe Marie, 1827. unbound. Map. Large format lithograph with original hand outline color. Image measures 18 1/4" x 20" Map. Large format lithograph with original hand outline color. Image measures 18 1/4" x 20".Detailed map of the Arabian peninsula showing explorers routes. Includes Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Israel. Mountains are delicately treated with hachure marks and major rivers and waterways, including the Nile and the Red Sea is called the Gulf of Arabia. From Vandermaelen's 6 volume "Atlas universel de geographie physique, politique, statistique et mineralogique, sur l'echelle de 1/16411836". Can be combined as gores to form an immense globe. The atlas was the first to map the world on a uniform scale.

JOHNSON, Daniel.Sketches of Indian Field Sports: London: Published for the Author, by Robert Jennings,, 1827. with observations of the animals: also an account of some of the customs of the inhabitants: with a description of the art of catching serpents, as practised by the conjurors, and their method of curing themselves when bitten: with remarks on hydrophobia and rabid animals. Second Edition: to which is added an account of hunting the wild boar, as followed by Europeans in Bengal and its dependencies. Octavo. Original drab grey boards neatly rebacked to style, new label. Engraved frontispiece after Ann Elizabeth Palmer, 4 lithograph plates of wild boar hunting (2 showing spear heads, two scenes), one page of music for a song entitled "The Hog Hunt". A few old stains to boards, corners a little worn and rounded. A very good copy with the slip entitled "Description of the Frontispiece" bound in before the Preface. Second and best edition; originally published in 1822, illustrated with the frontispiece alone. Daniel Johnson (1766/7-1835), surgeon and author, "was appointed assistant surgeon in the Bengal medical service on 22 January 1789. He conducted experiments on snakebite, and later communicated his findings to his fellow Bengal surgeon James Johnson. He was promoted to surgeon on 11 March 1805, and retired from the service in 1809. He settled at Great Torrington, Devon, and in 1822 printed, with the aid of a daughter of the local bookseller, 'not more than eight and a half years old', his Sketches of Indian Field-Sports [actually the title of the second edition]. The book was dedicated to the court of directors of the Hon. East India Company" (ODNB). In his new two-page preface Johnson comments on the "number of errors [that] crept into the first publication, from the singular manner in which it was printed by a wonderfully clever child". Czech remarks: "In this early work detailing Indian sport, Johnson provides notes on elephant, buffalo, and other game, but of primary importance are his chapters on hunting tiger and leopard principally in the jungle ares of Ramghur, Rogonautpore, and Bundbissunpore. The second edition contains extensive descriptions of wild boar hunting, including four plates". An exceptional, tall copy in the original boards; uncommon, Copac cites copies at just three British and Irish institutional libraries (Durham and Manchester universities, Wellcome), OCLC adds another 15 internationally.

(MARTIN, John, illustrator ) MILTON, John The Paradise Lost of Milton London: Septimus Prowett,, 1827. 2 volumes, large octavo (275 x 186 mm). Near-contemporary green half morocco, spines lettered in gilt with gilt tooling on bands and compartments, marbled sides and endpapers, top edges gilt. With 24 mezzotint illustrations by Martin. Spines a little faded, light rubbing to covers, front hinge of vol. I just starting to split but still firm, lightly foxed, slight discolouration to plate facing p. 175 in vol. I. A highly attractive set. First edition in book form, following the publication of the plates in twelve parts from 1825 to 1827. John Martin's Paradise Lost maintains a strong claim to be the finest illustrated edition of the poem ever produced. Already famous as an artist for his bold and melodramatic paintings, Martin was commissioned by Septimus Prowett to turn his talents to Milton. Unlike other artists who were commissioned for book illustration, who generally produced paintings which were then replicated as engravings, Martin produced his illustrations directly as mezzotints. The possibilities of mezzotints, which allow far greater detail and experimentation with lighting than usual steel engravings, were fully exploited by Martin, and in turn Paradise Lost "was ideal material for Martin, who echoed Milton's solemnity while opening out his cadences in the imagery of groves and chases bathed in silvery light and an underworld where fires tongue the darkness and bridges span nothingness and Satan's armies infest the gloom. In mezzotint Martin's vision thrived" (ODNB). Martin engraved the plates in both large and small formats and issued the work in various sizes, with Ray counting a total of eight different known formats for the work; the present octavo format was the standard issue. Provenance: The Cory family in Norfolk, with the presentation inscription to vol. I  "J. P. Cory. A tribute of affection & esteem, from his affectionate cousins May 1841", and with the bookplate of C. Cory to both front pastedowns.

COLE (John)A bound volume of 3 items produced by John Cole of Scarborough, an extraordinarily unsuccessful bookdealer, while being a most prolific author. His publications were generally issued in small runs, tastefully produced, with a few printed on coloured paper. 1. The History and Antiquities of Filey, in the County of York. Scarborough: Printed and Published by J. Cole, 1828. [4], vi (list of subscribers), 160pp., engraved frontispiece and title (offset), 3 engraved plates (the final plate in two states printed on tinted paper), 3 woodcuts within the text. [Bound with:] 2. Historical Sketches of Scalby, Burniston, and Cloughton, with Descriptive Notices of Hayburn Wyke, and Stianton Dale, in the County of York. Scarborough: Printed and Published by John Cole, 1829. [6], 91, [1], iii, [1]pp., pp. 69 to 82 are numbered 1-14, containing the letter on the British Village at Cloughton, and printed on blue paper, the remainder of the book on a pink tinted paper, tipped-in engraved frontispiece (offset), title page with Scarborough: Printed (only 50 copies) and Published by John Cole, 1827. [4], ii, 68pp., one of 50 copies, engraved portrait frontispiece, title page printed in red and black, 5 engraved plates, some light foxing. 3 works bound in one, 8vo (205 x 130 mm), cont. calf, rebacked, marbled boards. "Cole, John 1792-1848, bookseller and antiquary, of Northampton and Scarborough, was born on 3 Oct. 1792 at Weston Favell in Northamptonshire. He was apprenticed to Mr. W. Birdsall, a bookseller of Northampton, and began his literary career with a History of Northampton and its Vicinity in 1815. About two years later he married Susanna, second daughter of James Marshall of Northampton, and in 1817 purchased for 1,000l. the stock and goodwill of a bookseller at Lincoln. He printed his first Catalogue of Old Books at Lincoln in that year. He brought out a History of Lincoln in 1818, and then seems to have gone to Hull and afterwards to Scarborough, where we find him in 1821 publishing An Ænigmatical Catalogue of Books of Merit, on an entirely new plan. During the next ten years he issued most of his antiquarian and biographical works, many of which relate to Scarborough. He also helped Baker in his History of the County of Northampton. As unfortunate at Scarborough as at his previous dwelling-places, Cole tried Northampton once more, and opened a shop in the market square some time after 1830. He added to his small income by giving lectures on natural philosophy, &c... His literary activity was remarkable... They are usually of small size and tastefully printed and produced... Cole generally printed but few copies of his books, and usually a few were on coloured paper. Both for their rarity and as containing much out-of-the-way information they are sought after by Yorkshire and Northamptonshire collectors."DNB. Provenance: Early armorial bookplate of James Rimington. Boyne, CCXCIX; CCC.

Faraday, Michael; Ampčre, André-MarieMémoire sur l'action mutuelle d'un conducteur voltaďque et d'un aimant. Bound with 18 other works. From M. Faraday's library 1827. Faraday, Michael (1791-1867). Bound volume of 19 offprints/pamphlets on electricity and physics from Faraday's library, including four with Presentation Inscriptions from their Authors to Faraday, namely: (1) Ampčre, André-Marie (1775-1836). Mémoire sur l'action mutuelle d'un conducteur voltaďque et d'un aimant. Offprint from Nouveaux Mémoires de l'Académie royale des sciences et belles-lettres de Bruxelles 4 (1827). [2], 3-88pp. 3 folding engraved plates. Brussels: M. Hayez, Imprimeur de l'Académie Royale, [1827] (colophon). Inscribed by Ampére on the title: "ŕ Monsieur Faraday de la Société Royale de Londres de la part de l'auteur." (2) [Quetelet, Adolphe (1796-1874).] Rapport ŕ monsieur le minister de l'intérieur, sur les travaux de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et des Belles-Lettres de Bruxelles, depuis le mois de Juillet 1830. Offprint from Nouveaux Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Bruxelles 7 (1832). 12pp. Inscribed by Quetelet on the first leaf: "A Monsieur Faraday offert par l'auteur." (3) Plateau, Joseph Antoine Ferdinand (1801-83). Dissertation sur quelques propriétés des impressions produits par la lumičre sur l'organe de la vue. 32pp. Folding plate. Ličge: Dessain, 1829. Inscribed by Plateau on the title: "A Monsieur Faraday mem[bre] de la Société royale de Londres &c &c. De la part de l'auteur." (4) Wenckebach, Willem (1803-47). Disputatio mathematica inauguralis de pontium lapideorum forma et mensuris ex aequilibrii doctrina determinandis. [vii], 116, [2]pp. 2 folding plates. Amsterdam: Sulpke, 1830. Inscribed by Wenckebach on the title: "Dr. Faraday with the Author's resp[ects]." Bound with 15 other pamphlets (list available on request). 265 x 205 mm. Disbound, original boards preserved, in a drop-back box. Minor foxing and toning, two of the inscriptions a bit trimmed, but very good. An extraordinary volume of scientific offprints on physics, electricity and related subjects, including four with presentation inscriptions, owned and assembled by Michael Faraday, whose groundbreaking experimental researches on electrical and magnetic phenomena mark the foundation of modern electromagnetic technology and constitute "the starting point for the revolutionary theories of Clerk Maxwell and later of Einstein" (Printing and the Mind of Man). This is the only example we know of a book from Faraday's library. The offprints in it testify to the breadth and depth of Faraday's scientific interests and to his large network of connections within the 19th-century scientific community. Most of the offprints in this volume date from the 1820s and early 1830s, an extremely fruitful period in Faraday's scientific career. In 1821, shortly after Řrsted's discovery of electromagnetism, Faraday invented two devices to produce what he called "electromagnetic rotation," thus creating the first electric motor. He spent the next several years exploring the electromagnetic properties of materials, investigating the connections between optics and electromagnetism, perfecting several new types of glass for optical researches, and pursuing chemical investigations including the discovery of benzene. In 1831 Faraday published the first of his "Experimental researches in electricity" his single most important scientific paper, in which he reported his discovery of the means for generating electricity by electro-magnetic induction and his invention of the dynamo. From this revolutionary achievement "was to come the whole of the electric power industry and the benefits to everyone that have followed upon the ability to transport electricity to even the smallest village or farm" (Williams, Faraday, p. 195). The most significant item in this volume is the inscribed offprint of Ampčre's "Mémoire sur l'action mutuelle d'un conducteur voltaďque et d'un aimant" (1827), in which Ampčre showed that his own theory of electricity was able to account for the results obtained in Biot's and Poisson's rival theories. This memoir "brought to a close [Ampčre's] main sequence of research publications on electricity and magnetism" (Grattan-Guinness, p. 960); it immediately preceded his great summary work, Théorie mathématique des phénomčnes électrodynamiques uniquement déduite de l'expérience (1827), which is regarded as the founding treatise of electrodynamics. Like Faraday, Ampčre was one of the creators of electromagnetic science, and each was fully aware of the other's work in this field. The two men began corresponding and exchanging papers in the early 1820s, when Ampčre was in the midst of his brilliant series of experiments exploring the exact nature of the relationship between electric current-flow and magnetism. Later, after Ampčre's death, Faraday recalled Ampčre's kindness in writing to him "when [I was] a young man and fearful of venturing into science . . . [giving] me that confidence to which the little I have done if it is anything at all is entirely due" (letter to Dumas dated 29 April 1840, in The Select Correspondence of Michael Faraday, Vol. I, p. 372). Of the inscribed works other than Ampčre's in the present volume, the most interesting is the dissertation of optical physicist Joseph Plateau, who was one of the first to demonstrate the illusion of a moving image; his work contributed to the development of cinema. Faraday, who began corresponding with Plateau in the early 1830s, was also interested in optics, and it is likely that he first learned of Plateau's work from this inscribed copy of Plateau's thesis. "The basis of much of [Plateau's] work was his observation that an image takes an appreciable time to form on, and to disappear from, the retina. In his dissertation (1829) Plateau showed, among other things, that the total length of an impression, from the time it acquires all its force until it is scarcely sensible, is approximately a third of a second. He applied his results to the study of the principles of the color mixture produced by the rapid succession of colors. This led to the formulation of the law (now known as the Talbot-Plateau law) that the effect of a color briefly presented to the eye is proportional both to the intensity of the light and the time of presentation. Plateau also studied various optical illusions that result from the persistence of the image on the retina" (Dictionary of Scientific Biography). On 10 December 1830 Faraday presented a paper at the Royal Institution entitled "On a peculiar class of optical deceptions" about the optical illusions that could be found in rotating wheels. As Faraday publicly acknowledged, much of his paper was similar to what Plateau had published in his thesis. The statistician and social scientist Adolphe Quetelet, another of Faraday's scientific correspondents, is represented by two offprints in our volume, including the inscribed one listed above. Best known for his introduction of statistical methods into the social sciences, Quetelet was a polymath whose work on atmospheric electricity was much admired by Faraday. The two men corresponded and exchanged papers between the 1830s and the 1860s and appear to have enjoyed a warm professional relationship. The last signed offprint is a thesis by Dutch mathematician Willem Wenckebach, lecturer at the Royal Military Academy in Breda and later professor of mathematics at Utrecht University. We have not been able to find any information about his connection with Faraday. Among the other scientists represented in this volume are mathematician and engineer Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, one of the founders of France's École Polytechnique; physicist Amadeo Avogadro, for whom Avogadro's constant is named; physicist Auguste de la Rive, author of Treatise on Electricity in Theory and Practice (1854-58); natural historian and paleontologist Georges Cuvier; chemist Michel 45whose method of compiling mathematical tables greatly influenced Charles Babbage; and mathematician and physicist Joseph Fourier, author of Théorie analytique de la chaleur (1822). The original binding partially preserved for this volume is exceptionally plain and utilitarian. Whether Faraday might have bound it for himself is unknown, but it is a distinct possibility since he began his working life as a bookbinder before turning to science.

Edited by W. H. PyneThe World in Miniature, England, Scotland and Ireland, Containing A Description of the Character, Manners, Customs, Dress, Diversions, and Other Peculiarities of the Inhabitants of Great Britain, In Four Volumes, illustrated with 84 Hand Coloured Plates R. Ackermann, London 1827 - Published in Four Volumes, here bound in two in the original publishers cloth, this is a delightful work looking at the Classes, Characters, Costumes and Jobs of the people of Great Britain in the Georgian era, with descriptions of what each job entails, illustrated with Eighty Four Hand Coloured Engravings across the four volumes, with illustrations depicting many trades, including a Watchman, Blue Coat boy, Mail Coach, Knight of the Garter, Postman, Fireman, Shrimper, Life-Boat, Bill Sticker, Knife Grinder, Newsman, Lawyer, Doctor of Music, Coachman, Baker, Coal Porters, Fish Woman, Cat's Meat Woman, Match Girl, A Tread Mill, Lamplighter, Barrow Woman, Hawkers, Scavengers, Westminster Scholar, Quakers, Canal Boat, English Peasant, Butcher's Boy, Ticket Porter, Smithfield Drover, Knight of the Bath, Pensioner, Doctor in Law, Wine Coopers, Irish Pavior, Scottish Piper, Scottish Chieftain, Brewer's Drayman, House Maid, and many more. Books have been recased with most of the original back strips laid down, titled "National Costumes", to the spines, fitted with new endpapers, some mild page creasing throughout, some occasional foxing and browning, a few creased edges else in good general condition, books have been collated, all plates are present, a couple of plates have two images per page, and two have slightly different titles to those given on the list of illustrations pages, but all are present, small formats, just under 6 inches tall. A generally good set of this scarce work Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall [Attributes: Hard Cover]

YAMAMOTO, Akio (or Keigu), attributed toSeven albums of magnificently finished paintings, employing brush, watercolor, and Japanese pigments, mostly double-page, depicting approximately 310 botanical specimens, many with small supplementary drawings. 45; 45; 47; 46; 44; 45; 38 folding leaves (not counting some blanks). Seven vols. Small folio (310 x 227 mm.), orig. brown wrappers. [Japan]: 1890-93 The beautifully rendered illustrations in these seven albums were most likely executed by Akio (or Keigu) Yamamoto (1827-1903), Confucian scholar, doctor, botanist, and highly gifted artist. He was born in Kyoto, the son of the prominent doctor and botanist Boyo Yamamoto who specialized in materia medica (honzo). Keigu travelled widely throughout Japan, drawing plants and animals. He also wrote several standard works on materia medica and left many sketchbooks which entered the Kyoto rare book trade in 1932; some of these were published only in the 1980s. All of his sketchbooks offered valuable and unique information regarding native plants and plants which had been introduced into Japan. The paintings in our seven albums are clearly by a master and they very closely resemble the albums of Yamamoto's drawings preserved in the Iwase Bunko Library in Aichi Prefecture (see their webpage), in style and format. The artist demonstrates his great skill with brush, watercolor, and Japanese pigments. The illustrations are highly accurate and vivid. The coloring is rich and fresh. Much of the paper used is mica paper. The seven albums are divided by subject as we learn from the inscriptions on the lower edges: 1. Trees and flowers. Each brilliantly colored drawing is dated 1890 with the month and sometimes the place. The illustrations depict camellias, magnolias, cherry blossoms, willow, plum trees, chrysanthemums, narcissus, peach, pear, etc. Many of the pages contain extra depictions of the developing blossom, sometimes ten different stages. The artist also provides notes on appearance and scent. 2. Vegetables and fruits, dated 1890-93. Cucumbers, eggplants, pumpkins, herbs, red radish, peppers, scallions, plums, apricots, pomegranates, pears, gingko, yuzu, persimmon, etc. On the final leaf of Vol. II, the collector has written his signature "Kansai Sawawatari." 3. Trees and flowers, dated 1890. Rhododendrons, maples, iris, wild orchid, peonies, lilies, roses, beans, wheat, dandelion, etc. Some of the illustrations extend beyond the double-page openings. Towards the end of this volume, there are four black ink & brush drawings and one color drawing on tissue paper pasted-in. Written on the color drawing is "Teacher Akio Yamamoto's sketches copied." 4. Plants and flowers, dated 1890. Hydrangea, cucumber, several kinds of lotus, dahlia, pepper, hosta, pumpkin, beans, morning glories, clematis, etc. Yamamoto has also indulged in nature printing by inking a number of leaves and pressing them on to the pages. 5. Plants and flowers, dated 1890-91. Marigolds, lilies, morning glories, maples, plums, quince, cherry, apricot, etc. 6. Illegible title. With a thirty plant manuscript index. Dated 1891. Narcissus, camellia, peonies, fiddle fern, iris, poppies, plums, iris, gardenias, lilies, morning glories, dogwoods, etc. 7. Plants and flowers, dated 1891. Iris, orchid, willow, peonies, wild orchid, narcissus, clover, holly, pine, wild orchid drawn in the Chinese style, etc. On the final leaf, the collector has written his signature "Kansai Sawawatari." &#10087; S. Kitamura, "Phonzoshaseizufu by Keigu Yamamoto," an on-line article from the Japanese Society of Plant Systematics, Acta. Phytotax. Geobot, Vol. XXXI, Nos. 4-6 (Nov. 1980), pp. 195-200 (the correct title is Honzo shasei zufu).

HODGKIN, JohnA companion to hodgkin's introduction to writing and grammar; intended To save the Time of Teachers, and to assist Parents in examining the Progress of their Children in these branches of Education London: Printed for Harvey and Darton, 1827-8. In two parts, in two volumes. 23pp, [1]; viii, 70pp, [2]. With terminal advertisement leaf. Original publisher's grey paper wrappers. Slightly rubbed at spine, upper joint of the second volume partially torn. The rare companion to Quaker, English tutor and calligrapher John Hodgkin's (1766-1845) Introduction to writing, a popular educational text apparently first published in the first decade of the nineteenth-century. It was produced with the express intention of assisting parents in 'examining the progress of their children' by providing a large number of questions and answers relating to the original text; the lengthy preface notes that 'most of the materials...are taken from Lowth's Grammar and Blairs Lectures, some from Murray's and Shaw's Grammar, and a few some Crombie's Etymology and Syntax, Harris's Hermes, and Campbell's Philosophy of Rhetoric'. COPAC locates copies of the first part at BL and Society of Friends, and the second part at the Society of Friends only. OCLC adds... Darton G474[2], G475. . Second edition. 12mo.

ROBERTSON, JohnObservations on the Mortality and Physical Management of Children London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Greene, 1827. Very Good. First edition. Later quarter cloth (a little amateurishly re-backed) and original papercovered boards. 311pp., errata slip. Corners a bit bumped and worn, an attractive about very good copy. Robertson was a Scottish-born pioneer of modern obstetrics.

JOHNSON, Daniel.Sketches of Indian Field Sports: with observations of the animals: also an account of some of the customs of the inhabitants: with a description of the art of catching serpents, as practised by the conjurors, and their method of curing themselves when bitten: with remarks on hydrophobia and rabid animals. Second Edition: to which is added an account of hunting the wild boar, as followed by Europeans in Bengal and its dependencies. London: Published for the Author, by Robert Jennings, 1827 - Octavo. Original drab grey boards neatly rebacked to style, new label. A few old stains to boards, corners a little worn and rounded. A very good copy with the slip entitled "Description of the Frontispiece" bound in before the Preface. Engraved frontispiece after Ann Elizabeth Palmer, 4 lithograph plates of wild boar hunting (2 showing spear heads, two scenes), one page of music for a song entitled "The Hog Hunt". Second and best edition; originally published in 1822, illustrated with the frontispiece alone. Daniel Johnson (1766/7-1835), surgeon and author, "was appointed assistant surgeon in the Bengal medical service on 22 January 1789. He conducted experiments on snakebite, and later communicated his findings to his fellow Bengal surgeon James Johnson. He was promoted to surgeon on 11 March 1805, and retired from the service in 1809. He settled at Great Torrington, Devon, and in 1822 printed, with the aid of a daughter of the local bookseller, 'not more than eight and a half years old', his Sketches of Indian Field-Sports [actually the title of the second edition]. The book was dedicated to the court of directors of the Hon. East India Company" (ODNB). In his new two-page preface Johnson comments on the "number of errors [that] crept into the first publication, from the singular manner in which it was printed by a wonderfully clever child". Czech remarks: "In this early work detailing Indian sport, Johnson provides notes on elephant, buffalo, and other game, but of primary importance are his chapters on hunting tiger and leopard principally in the jungle ares of Ramghur, Rogonautpore, and Bundbissunpore. The second edition contains extensive descriptions of wild boar hunting, including four plates". An exceptional, tall copy in the original boards; uncommon, Copac cites copies at just three British and Irish institutional libraries (Durham and Manchester universities, Wellcome), OCLC adds another 15 internationally. Czech, Asian Big Game, pp. 113-14.

Kiho Gafu Kyoto, 1827. Kawamura Kiho. Small quarto. 2, 31, 4ff. Illustrated with thirty color wood-block prints by ukiyo-e artist Kawamura Kiho. Kiho, who was also known as Shun, Goitsu, and Chikurikwan, was the adopted son and acknowledged disciple of artist Kawamura Bumpo. Both Bumpo and Kiho are stylistically similar to the the Shijo school, which preferred gray and black lines highlighted with pale blushes of color over the more vivid ukiyo-e style popular at the end of the eighteenth century. These light colors are perfectly suited to this sensitive collection, most of which illustrate simple and quiet scenes from everyday life. Farmers and fisherman are interspersed with portraits of plants and animals. Of especial interest are three prints of people reading-a farmer bundling rice while reading a book laid open on the ground, a bearded man huddling beneath a lamp, and man lounging beneath a full moon. The images are preceded by a four-page preface and one page of calligraphy, and followed by a closing note, eight pages of advertisements, and a colophon. In the original blue covers patterned with waves of mica, with a title label to the upper cover. Overall light soiling and wear to covers, with minor worming to inside covers and last two leaves; red stamp to lower right and small loss to fore-edge of front cover; unobtrusive ink inscription to inside front cover; re-sewn with new thread and housed in new chitsu. A beautiful book by an under-appreciated artist. (Ryerson, p. 388; Brown, p. 105; Mitchell, pp. 360-361, Example A; Franklin, pp. 75 & 79).

CASY, Joseph-GrégoireExtrait analytique de la tactique navale le 1er November : 1827 : Toulon : Manuscript on paper, 156 x 197mm, pp. [12] 1-90 and blanks at either end; p. 90 is a table on a double-page spread. Written in a calligraphic scribal hand (apart from the dedication which is presumably autograph), ruled borders, numerous diagrams of naval tactics in the text. : A pre-publication manuscript copy of a manual of naval tactics with diagrams of naval formations intended for use on shipboard. In his dedication to Commendant Bazoche, Casy points out the value of a pocket treatise compared with large tomes, inconvenient to use on the bridge while at sea. It was written, he says, while serving in South America under rear admiral Claude du Campe de Rosa. Casy then served under the recipient of this manuscript, Commendant Bazoche, between 1823 and 1826 aboard the Marie-Thérèse, during the Spanish War off Brazil, Chile and Peru. In the year that this manuscript was presented to Bazoche, Casy was appointed chevalier de la Légion d'honneur, and later was a vice admiral and Ministre de la Marine.The manuscript is written in an accomplished professional hand, apart from the dedication which is presumably in Casy's own hand. The work was printed in 1828 (Toulon: A. Aurel, 12mo, pp. 106) - I have only been able to locate a single copy, at the BNF.

MILTON JOHN ; MARTIN JOHN IllustratesPARADISE LOST. With illustrations, designed and engraved by John Martin Septimus Prowett. London. 1827. FIRST MARTIN EDITION. Two large 8vo volumes (11.1 X 8.2 inches). Vol. 1. vi, 228pp. Vol. 2. iv, 218pp. Beautifully Illustrated with 24 fine Mezzotint engravings, each with a plain tissue paper guard. There is some foxing, but mostly to the margins, throughout both volumes and affecting both the text and illustration leaves. Overall a very good copy. Finely bound in attractive nineteenth century half dark red morocco bindings. Spines with five raised bands, each with gilt ruled line. Compartments triple ruled and lettered in gilt. Marbled paper on boards. Marbled endpapers. Top edges gilt. Neat later inscription to the front blank endpaper of volume one. A little rubbing and bumping to the extremities of the bindings but overall a very good set of this beautifully illustrated edition in attractive nineteenth century leather bindings.